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Reynolds, Todd; Burrows, Andrea C.; Borowczak, Mike – SAGE Open, 2022
For 2 weeks in the summer of 2018, K-12 STEM teachers (n = 40) attended a professional development (PD) that included four sessions focused on computer science modeling with follow-up academic year sessions; however, overall, the teachers did not meet expectations about what modeling means or how to utilize it. To examine why, the authors looked…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teachers, STEM Education, Faculty Development
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Kenneth H. MacKinnon – Journal of School Leadership, 2024
In Ontario, Canada, principals' work is guided by competencies outlined in the Ontario Leadership Framework which reflect the leadership skills and behaviours needed to successfully lead schools, improve student achievement and well-being. The problem is that this document largely ignores equity and anti-oppressive leadership behaviours. The…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Effectiveness, Leadership Styles
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Shume, Teresa J. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
This study examined the conceptualisation of disability in a teacher education textbook. Drawing on Norman Fairclough's post-structurally informed approach to critical discourse analysis, I deconstructed the language used in a science teacher education textbook to portray disability, and examined relationships to broader socio-political contexts…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Discourse Analysis, Teacher Education
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Dasgupta, Chandan – Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
Background: There is a need to find ways of productively engaging K-12 students with engineering design. I investigate a new class of physical models, referred to as Improvable Models, as scaffolds for helping middle school students productively engage in engineering design practices. Purpose/Hypothesis: The purpose of this study is to answer two…
Descriptors: Models, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Authentic Learning, Discourse Analysis
Temperley, Austin J. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study was designed to understand how ACSI certified Christian School leaders in Arizona lead their schools. There are a variety of leadership models available. Servant leadership, being a fairly recent phenomenon has been studied and implemented by numerous organizations and leaders with great organizational success and buy in. One area of…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Models, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education
Raymond, Margaret E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
Maligned and revered, exemplified or reviled, almost every discussion about charter schools involves a tangle of differing histories, theories, values, and facts. Worse, many times the parties to the discussion aren't even aware they're operating on different planes of discourse. A sort of mental gridlock often results. But by separating…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Debate, Discourse Analysis, Ideology
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Csereklye, Erzsebet – Multicultural Education Review, 2014
The European discourse of multicultural education almost exclusively addresses the experiences of Western Europe. Countries in Eastern and Central Europe have experienced not only different ways of economic and political development in the 20th century, but also different constructs of social, especially ethnic diversity. In the CEE region the…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Teacher Attitudes, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
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Gabriel, Rachael; Lester, Jessica Nina – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
Since the beginning of the federal Race To The Top grant competition, Value-Added Measurement (VAM) has captured the attention of the American public through high-profile media representations of the tool and the controversy that surrounds it. In this paper, we build upon investigations of constructions of VAM in the media and present a discourse…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Teacher Evaluation, Discourse Analysis, Policy Formation
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Sifakakis, Polychronis; Tsatsaroni, Anna; Sarakinioti, Antigone; Kourou, Menie – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2016
This article explores the localisation of the global and European discourse of educational governance in the Greek education system through the changes that have been introduced in the field of education administration since 2009 by the then socialist government. Our research aims to contribute to the critical policy literature on the spreading…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Change, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries
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Evans, Michael P.; Radina, Rachel – School Community Journal, 2014
Family, school, and community partnerships are a critical part of student achievement, but the successful establishment of meaningful partnerships with low-income and minority populations remains elusive. In 1994, legislators in the United States passed a version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that seeks to address this…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Educational Legislation
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Crasborn, Frank; Hennissen, Paul; Brouwer, Niels; Korthagen, Fred; Bergen, Theo – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
In this study, a two-dimensional model of mentor teacher roles in mentoring dialogues, entitled MERID, is explored empirically. Data regarding five aspects of mentoring dialogues were collected, using a sample of 20 transcriptions of mentoring dialogues, in which 112 topics were discussed and 440 mentor teacher utterances emerged. Correlations…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Role, Multivariate Analysis, Models
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Schachter, Elli P.; Rich, Yisrael – Educational Psychologist, 2011
This article presents the concept of "identity education" (IdEd) referring to the "purposeful involvement of educators with students' identity-related processes or contents." We discuss why educators may consider identity important to the realization of educational goals and choose to target aspects of students' identity in their pedagogical…
Descriptors: Educational Researchers, Immigrants, Identification, Teaching Methods
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Riveros, Augusto – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2012
In this paper I highlight the significance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's contribution to the study of teacher learning. I particularly draw on his notion of "embodiment" to show that professional knowledge is embodied knowledge and that teachers make sense of their professional world through their embodied action. I contrast my…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Cooperation, Models
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Lee, Wing On – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2012
This article explores the discourse of international educational reform that aims at meeting the various challenges of globalisation and a knowledge-based economy and preparing students for a better future in the twenty-first century. Specifically, it reviews the dominant themes, trends and goals of modern education. It does so by exploring the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Lifelong Learning, Educational Change, International Education
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Campbell, Todd; Oh, Phil Seok; Neilson, Drew – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
This research investigated the emergent discursive modes and their pedagogical functions found in model-based inquiry (MBI) science classrooms. A sample of four high school physics classrooms was video-recorded and analysed using a newly established discourse mode analysis framework. Qualitative methods were employed to identify the most salient…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Science Teachers, High School Students, Classroom Communication
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